The Greatest Political Scandal?

Watergate is generally considered the benchmark when the question is asked as what is the greatest political scandal in American history.

This is the answer that Grok provides when that question was asked.

I have to wonder whether that answer will change as we review what has transpired in politics in the United States over the last few years?

Let's consider a few of the political scandals over the last few years.

1. The Russian Collusion hoax which was initiated and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign against Donald Trump in the 2016 election and then legitimized by the FBI, the mainstream media and others to hamper Trump during his first term in office.

2. The Covid pandemic. The virus was real but I have to believe that the public health and media response would have been far different if Barack Obama or another Democrat has been in office when it first appeared. Would recommendations have been made to shut down the country? Would the media be publishing the case and death counts daily? A big part of the Covid response was clearly initiated as a way to hurt Trump's presidency.

3. The coverup of the origins of Covid and the NIH funding of gain of function research at the Wuhan lab, the government censorship of those who did not agree with the Covid response and the mandates that were forced on so many without any scientific basis (masking, denial of natural immunity, vaccine mandates etc.) This all seemed to flow from the D.C. establishment and mainstream media circling the wagons to protect the credibility of Dr. Fauci at all costs and attempt to demonize Trump who had referred to Covid as "the China virus". The objective seemed to be to show Fauci/Biden as responsible and "in control" and Trump as irresponsible and "out of control". To this day many Democrats will tell you that Trump told people to ingest bleach to kill the virus even though he never said anything of the sort.

4. The censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead up to the 2020 election by the mainstream media and the silence of the FBI on the subject even though they knew the laptop to be authentic for almost a year before the story broke in The New York Post a month before the election.

5. The massive number of irregularities in looking at the results of the 2020 election including the refusal of almost every judicial authority to look at the allegations of voting fraud on the merits.

6. The concerted effort to imprison or bankrupt Donald Trump so that he could not run for President in 2024 that appears to have been orchestrated in part by the Biden administration.

7. The coverup of the health and mental condition of Joe Biden starting during the 2016 election campaign where he rarely left his basement and continuing throughout his four years in office. Recent revelations in the newly released book, Original Sin, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson and the disclosure this week that Biden has advanced stage prostate cancer has underlined the dimensions of the coverup and the scandal. 

As I reflected on all of these scandals I realized what a tangled web they were but I found it interesting that they all had one common theme weaving throughout all of them.

Each of these scandals was motivated by a singular desire to prevent Donald J. Trump from being President or by hampering his effectiveness in office.

Each scandal seems to have as its basis some form of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

The hatred and fear of Trump that caused so many to resort to such irrational, irresponsible, and possibly, criminal actions, should cause us to rethink whether Watergate was the most high profile political scandal in American history.

In fact, an argument could be made that any of the seven scandals listed above could alone supplant Watergate as the benchmark for all other political scandals to be measured.

However, when you consider the fact that each of these scandals had at its core the motivation to harm, limit or damage Trump in order to keep him away from the power of the Presidency, there is little question we have been living through the greatest political scandal of all time during the last eight years.

Watergate is nothing compared to what we have seen with the collusion, coverups and criminality associated with these scandals.

The combination of these scandals represents the greatest assault the United States has ever seen on its democratic processes as all of these scandalous efforts were an attempt to undermine and overrule the will of the American people.

Of course, the irony is that is exactly what those who perpetrated these scandals state that Donald Trump is doing.

Will we ever see any accountability?

The answer to that question may ultimately determine the extent to which our most important government institutions and the mainstream media are able to retain any credibility and respect with the American people.

The final irony is that our government institutions and mainstream media may need Donald Trump to be successful in his agenda and in reestablishing accountability and the rule of law to regain that credibility.

It will not be easy.